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Old Photograph Dining Room Roman Camp Hotel Callander Scotland
Old photograph of the dining room in the Roman Camp Hotel in Callander, Trossachs, Scotland. Located on the River Teith, near Stirling, and often described as the gateway to the Highlands. The people of Callander were drawn into the Jacobite wars of the 17th and 18th centuries when the Duke of Perth, a Drummond whose family owed its position to James VI, declared for the deposed House of Stuart. Continued rebellions, in Callander and elsewhere, prompted the government to invest in creating a network of military roads through the Highlands, in order to increase the mobility of their troops in dealing with the Jacobite threat. Callander's position made it the obvious choice for a road. It is an interesting fact, that the road was completed just in time for the 1745 rebellion, during which the roads were of most use to the rebels.
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